The Eyes of the Angel of Death: Ophthalmic experiments of Josef Mengele

The infamous SS doctor Josef Mengele was known as the Angel of Death for choosing and condemning Jews, gypsies, and other prisoners to the gas chambers at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Less known was his active participation in ophthalmic research with equal disregard for life and ethical principles. Mengele was not an ophthalmologist, but he worked in close collaboration and complicity with two genetic researchers at the Kaiser-Wilhelm Institute in Berlin, Karin Magnussen and Otmar Von Verschuer.
Source: Survey of Ophthalmology - Category: Opthalmology Authors: Tags: History of ophthalmology Source Type: research